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B - Overseas Division (initially 'Foreign Division') 1799-1959 - 1803-1959
OMS - Overseas mission series - 1803-1934
CE - Ceylon Mission - 1815-1934
C E - Early correspondence - 1815-1820
1 - Letters and papers: 3 April 1815 - 17 February 1820 - 1815-1820
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CMS/B/OMS/C CE E1/52
Title
Letter from Knight to Pratt: 12 May 1819: Nellore
Extent
1 doc.
Date
1819
Description
Rented house and garden for five years; may be advisable to purchase it; entered station in Nov and opened house for preaching; Mr. David helps; cholera attacked village at end of Dec; work had to be closed down; studied language; attended annual meeting of missionaries; was absent from station about six weeks; too great an interruption to his studies and may not attend next year; would like a colleague, possible friend, Mr. [Thomas] Browning; is on friendly terms with missionaries of other denominations though "it does not seem advisable to unite with them in public worship".
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